The Statistical Office announces that the number of building permits issued by municipal authorities and provincial administrations in February 2022 amounted to 774. The total value of these permits reached €228.1 million and the total area was 189.7 thousand square meters. With these permits, 901 residential units are planned to be built.
In the period January - February 2022, 1,309 building permits were issued compared to 1,150 in the same period of the previous year, an increase of 13.8%. The total value of these permits increased by 19.2% and the total floor area by 16.1%. The number of housing units increased by 12.9%.
Building permits are an important indicator of future activity in the construction sector.
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Table 1 |
[TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TD] [/TD]
[TR] [TD]
Category Project Category
[/TD] [TD]Number of Permits
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Feb 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb
2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb 2022/
Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]530
[/TD] [TD]891
[/TD] [TD]828
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
7,6
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]120
[/TD] [TD]203
[/TD] [TD]166
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
22,3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]49
[/TD] [TD]84
[/TD] [TD]70
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
20,0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Building Division
[/TD] [TD]58
[/TD] [TD]104
[/TD] [TD]75
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
38,7
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Road Construction
[/TD] [TD]17
[/TD] [TD]27
[/TD] [TD]11
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
145,5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]774
[/TD] [TD]1.309
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]1.150
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]13,8
[/TD] [/TR]
| Table 2 | |||||
| Project Category | Area (m²) | [TD] Percentage Change (%) | |||
| Feb 2022 | Jan-Feb 2022 |
Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
Jan-Feb 2022/
Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [/TD][TR] [TD]
Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]167.007
[/TD] [TD]290,668
[/TD] [TD]258.814
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
12.3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Non-Residential Buildings
[/TD] [TD]21,340
[/TD] [TD]55,348
[/TD] [TD]39.547
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
40.0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Civil Engineering Projects
[/TD] [TD]1.341
[/TD] [TD]1.666
[/TD] [TD]1.080
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
54.3
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]189,688
[/TD] [TD]347,682
[/TD] [TD]299.441
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]16,1
[/TD] [/TR] Table 3 Project Category Value (€000's) Percentage Change (%) Feb 2022 Jan-Feb 2022 Jan-Feb 2021 [/TD] [TD] Jan-Feb 2022/ Jan-Feb 2021 [TR] [TD] Residential Buildings 171.461 298,016 261.456 14.0 Non-Residential Buildings 29.035 61.351 40.936 49.9 Civil Engineering Projects 20,142 22.027 21.884 0.7 Land division 6.598 10.909 5.033 116.7 Road Construction 877 1.323 885 49.5 Total 228,113 393,626 330.194 19,2
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| Table 4 | |||||
| Residential Buildings |
Number of Residential Units |
[TD] [/TD] [/TD] [TD]
Percentage Change (%)
[/TD] [/TD][TR] [TD]
Feb 2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb
2022
[/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]Jan-Feb 2022/
Jan-Feb 2021
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Single-family houses
[/TD] [TD]318
[/TD] [TD]561
[/TD] [TD]445
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
26,1
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Duplexes
[/TD] [TD]92
[/TD] [TD]154
[/TD] [TD]121
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
27,3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Residential apartment buildings
[/TD] [TD]469
[/TD] [TD]767
[/TD] [TD]754
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
1,7
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Mixed multifamily
[/TD] [TD]22
[/TD] [TD]59
[/TD] [TD]45
[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]
31,1
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]901
[/TD] [TD]1.541
[/TD] [TD]1.365
[/TD] [TD] [/TD] [TD]12,9
[/TD] [/TR] [/TR]
Methodological information
Purpose and coverage
The purpose is to collect basic data concerning residential and non-residential buildings as well as other building activities such as civil engineering projects, land division and road construction, by province (urban and rural areas). For each category of project, information is compiled on the number of permits issued, the area and value of the project and the number of housing units planned to be built.
All building permits issued by local government authorities, i.e. town halls, provincial administrations of the Ministry of Interior and the Community Council of Agios Tychonas, are covered.
Data collection
The Statistical Service receives on a monthly basis from all local government authorities copies of all building permit forms issued by them. The information contained in the forms is appropriately coded by the Statistics Office to produce the statistics. The EU Classification of Construction (CC) is used to categorise the different building projects.
For more information, interested parties can visit the Statistical Office Portal, under Construction CYSTAT-DB (Database) Predefined Tables (Excel) or contact Mr. Achilleas Moustakas: tel.: 22602156, tel.: amoustakas@cystat.mof.gov.cy
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